Chapter 9: "Sans titre (Henry Moore, Reclining Figure et Vertebrae)" Part 2

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter nine, Henry Moore Reclining Figure A Vertebrae part two. This chapter describes part two of Song by Melanie Myers. It is two minutes long. Speaker 1 00:00:13 A confession. There was something left out of the description of Sait Henry Moore reclining figure and vertebrae in the previous chapter, and that's because there is also something missing from Myers drying in the Triptic. There are three white irregular shapes, simply the pep base. Each one is different with a point sticking upwards or a curved bottom. It is a stark contrast to the forested area. The shapes are, in fact, the three components of renowned sculptor, Henry Moore's large bronze work titled three piece Sculpture Vertebrae. And indeed, they do look like the curved components of the spine there but not there in the forest below. In the shallows, there is another white shape, much larger. It is Henry Moore's reclining figure. Myers has built the abstracted female form using pep so that it pops out of the drying. She appears draped over the arched branches that emerge from the water. The artist has also given her a skin much different from the original bronze or even empty non-color. Green shimmering fish scales cover her entire body, even her head. It has not been drawn exactly on the form, however, but slightly shifted down into the left so that the unmarked pep is still there marking a slight movement or dissonance just like this shift, Myers has intentionally shifted the environment, the materials and labor, even dimension of the original sculptures, positioning them anew in this imagined landscape. How do you think this shifts their meaning? Speaker 0 00:01:49 Go to the next chapter to hear Myers talk about her artwork.